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CHF Announces 18 Fellowships in the History of Science in 2011–12 Academic Year

August 24, 2011 - Philadelphia

The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) will award a total of eighteen pre- and post-doctorate fellowships in the history of chemistry in the 2011–12 academic year. The fellows come to CHF from across the United States, five European nations, and China. They will study topics as varied as the science of sweat, paint chemistry, nutrition, alchemy, and the early history of chromatography.

“The perfect way to end the International Year of Chemistry is to continue it,” said Thomas R. Tritton, president and CEO. “This year's scholars will bring new chapters in the rich history of chemistry to life, as this year of celebrating chemistry comes to an end. I look forward to meeting all of these talented scholars and to seeing their work take shape.”

Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellows
1. Augustin Cerveaux (University of Strasbourg, France), Cain Fellow: “‘From an Art to a Science:’ Changes in Paint Chemistry and Technology in Progressive-Era America and the Great Depression”
2. Catherine Jackson (University College London, United Kingdom), Cain Fellow: “Material World: Analysis, Synthesis and the Making of Modern Chemistry”
3. Brendan Matz (Yale University), Haas Fellow: “The Science of Nutrition in Germany and the United States, 1870–1920”
4. J. Emmanuel Raymundo (Tulane University), Edelstein Fellow: “National Skin: Contact, Conflict, and the Culion Leper Colony in the U.S.-Occupied Philippines, 1902–1941”
5. Doogab Yi (National Institutes of Health), Haas Fellow: “The Organized Search for the Oncogene: ‘Proto’ Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine, and the History of the War on Cancer, 1964–1980”